I agree with bulge busting all range pickup brass straight after wet tumble and dry, then headstamp sorting, then uniform trim (I prefer a Forster Original with a short base for calibers shorter than...
Type: Posts; User: Littlewolf
I agree with bulge busting all range pickup brass straight after wet tumble and dry, then headstamp sorting, then uniform trim (I prefer a Forster Original with a short base for calibers shorter than...
Forum: Helping Hands
cool thank you Der, I may have to print this thread out
Forum: Helping Hands
searching through wiki/google forum results there was some mention of mods to the Carcano clips to work with the Mauser case but no destructions on how to mod. all agreed that the 7.9 stamp is a...
Forum: Helping Hands
can anybody point me to gear to reload for this caliber brass and dies mainly.
recommendations for wad materials for the buffer wads, I have two methods for cutting them at my disposal sharp punches and lazers.
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
I found 150 rnds of once fired nagant brass at a gun show and loaded it with a #3 tool and 3118 boolits. shoots great out of my savage sporter doesn't eject due to rim diameter on every round but...
i many years ago at a garage sale I bought a lead hammer mold with its own ladle built in it casts a 4# head much like the pics springfield posted these molds are currently widely available on Ebay
Forum: Swaging
side note the 20" m16A2 service rifle point target rating is an 8" circle at 500 meters with 62gr fmj M855 ball
Forum: Swaging
I have one of the 62gr simple sets and out of an AR with a 24" 1/7 barrel golf balls at 673yrds is quite doable
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
agreed with the thick necks. i had same problems with 7.62 nagant into 32-20 32-20 requires a neck wall of .006-.007 thickness and the nagant is .012-.014 so i went with a forster neck reamer...
I'm trying to find 32S&W (short) hand type full length resizer. if you have an extra please pm me here.
I 3d print and with the help of VMD charts and math I have made a few powder and charge weight by caliber labeled ,UV resin lee-ish style powder scoops and caliber specific funnels that fit in the...
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
newest date on my H&A 32 is 1886 and .9gr HP-38 seem to work quite well. I dont have a chrono to tell you what the fps is but at 6ft the boolits from my pre-310 tool mold ventilate 1/2" cdx plywood....
ok, thanks this means I have all but a #1 in one caliber or another
YES, please.
PS; how does one tell the difference between a #1, #3, #6 and the short lived other numbers between.
I've seen the re-priming notch on the mold block, no boolit sizer, no mold,...
Is there anybody out there with one of the ideal pre-#310 tools in 30-30 /30WCF that still has the spud willing to provide a schematic or crude drawing with measurements so I can try to have one made...
I likes the Brass plan
#10 or #310 tools / dies in
32S&W short
38S&W
44S&W R
32-20
45-70-405
30-30
44mag
#10 parts in 45acp
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
I'm looking for instructions on how to wrap paper cartridge for 32, 36, 45, 50 ML rifles. If you have a way to post worded pictorials to either me or thread wide that would be great. thank you.
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
my two cents on loading 32S&W a good friend of mine has his grandfathers hopkins and allen safety police with papers to prove his grandfather bought it in 1906. if you follow the data in the box of...
i made a scoop for 45acp loading back when all i could afford was a set of lee dies a hand press and safety scale, found a scrap board and drilled a bunch of 1/2" holes with a borrowed brace and bit...
i've been using tinkercad while trying to learn fusion360 with little luck but with tinkercad i've created a lot of calibers of loading blocks and other outdoorsman bits n bobs
Forum: Case Forming / Re-forming
410 2 3/4"or trim to 2.5" for a judge
Forum: Black Powder Cartridge
like phantom22 im new in the BP 45-70-405 loading. A family member recently gave me a model 1873 manufactured in 1878. I remember him shooting off the shelf remington 300gr semi-jacketed hollow point...
i dont know all the details. however i do know that ever since NOE got the new web provider, that as items sold out that they stayed that way. i've ordered from Al (NOE) several times with only one...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |